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Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a charitable cultural film festival organization located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that advocates Asian representations through media arts. Works include films and videos by East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, as well as those by Asian-Canadian and Asian-American filmmakers. As Canada's largest and longest-running Pan-Asian film festival in Canada with a 25-year history, Reel Asian provides a public forum for Asian media artists and their work, and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada. History The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival was founded in 1997 by film producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Reel Asian Film Festival kicks off in T.O. CTC.ca; retrieved 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon the festival's focus, can include international and domestic releases. Some film festivals focus on a specific filmmaker, genre of film (e.g. horror films), or on a subject matter. Several film festivals focus solely on presenting short films of a defined maximum length. Film festivals are typically annual events. Some film historians, including Jerry Beck, do not consider film festivals as official releases of the film. The most prestigious film festivals in the world, known as the "Big Five", are (listed chronologically according to the date of foundation): Venice Film Festival, Venice, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin (the original ''Big Three''), Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Wu , standing committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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Tony Wu may refer to: * Wu Chung-yi, Taiwanese billionaire * Tony Wu (actor), Hong Kong actor and retired baseball player * Wu Tung-lin, Taiwanese tennis player See also * Anthony Wu Antony Wu Ting-yuk, GBS, JP, (born 1954)() is a standing committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee of the People's Republic of China. He was appointed on 11 March 2013. Early life Wu r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian-Canadian Culture In Toronto
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia. Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, with roughly 19.3% of the Canadian population as of 2021. Most Asian Canadians are concentrated in the urban areas of Southern Ontario, Southwestern British Columbia, Central Alberta, and other large Canadian cities. Asian Canadians are considered visible minorities and may be classified as East Asian Canadians, Southeast Asian Canadians, South Asian Canadians, and West & Central Asian Canadians. As of the 2016 Canadian census, the pan-ethnic breakdown of major Asian-origin Canadian groups includes East Asian Canadians (2,148,230 people or 35.2%), South Asian Canadians (1,963,330 people or 32.2%), Southeast Asian Canadians (1,214,835 people or 19.9%), and West & Central Asian Canadians (1,011,150 people or 16.6%). In further detail, the largest self-re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simu Liu
Simu Liu ( ; ; born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor. He is known for portraying Shang-Chi in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings''. He also played Jung Kim in the CBC Television sitcom ''Kim's Convenience'' and received nominations at the ACTRA Awards and Canadian Screen Awards for his work in '' Blood and Water''. In 2022, Liu authored the memoir ''We Were Dreamers'', and was named one of ''Time'' 100 most influential people in the world. Early life Liu was born in Harbin, China, on 19 April 1989, son of Zhenning and Zheng Liu. His parents had succeeded, against considerable competition, in entering Beijing University to study engineering. His father, Zhenning, went to America to study for a PhD whilst his mother worked in Beijing, and Liu was raised until age 5 by his grandparents in Harbin, China, "in a small apartment, without running water for much of the day", in circumstances he recalled as "idyllic and happy". His p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Yoon
Jean Yoon (born May 4, 1962) is an American-born Canadian actress and writer of Korean descent. Yoon is best known for originating the role of family matriarch Umma in the 2011 play ''Kim's Convenience'' and in the award-winning CBC Television series adapted from the play, for which she won an ACTRA Award and received two Canadian Screen Award nominations. Early life Yoon was born in Champaign, Illinois to parents of Korean descent in 1962 and subsequently raised in Toronto, where she currently resides and works. Career 1980s–1990s: Early career in theatre Yoon started her career in theatre as an actress in the early 1980s, but soon quit in frustration after she struggled to find work and went on to complete her degree at the University of Toronto (BA Innis 1989). A decade later, in 1995, she returned to acting and started her own group called Loud Mouth Asian Babes, through which she has written and produced plays that focus on the Korean diaspora, mostly in Canada. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (born August 16, 1972) is a Korean-Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera ''Train 48'' (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play ''Kim's Convenience'' (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021). Lee has won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series four times for his role as Mr. Kim in ''Kim's Convenience'', and has been nominated twice for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role, Large Theatre, for ''The Monster Under the Bed'' in 2010 and the stage version of ''Kim's Convenience'' in 2012. Early life When Lee was three months old, his parents immigrated from Daejeon, South Korea to Canada, living in London, Toronto and Calgary. In 1990, he moved back to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto, where he attended the drama program at University College. Career He had a supporting role in the film ''Ice Princess'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim's Convenience
''Kim's Convenience'' is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on CBC Television from October 2016 to April 2021. It depicts the Korean Canadian Kim family that runs a convenience store in the Moss Park neighbourhood of Toronto: parents "Appa" (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) and "Umma" (Jean Yoon) – Korean for ''dad'' and ''mom'', respectively – along with their daughter Janet (Andrea Bang) and estranged son Jung (Simu Liu). Other characters include Jung's friend and coworker Kimchee ( Andrew Phung), his manager Shannon (Nicole Power) and Janet's friend Gerald Tremblay ( Ben Beauchemin). The series is based on Ins Choi's 2011 play of the same name. The first season was filmed from June to August 2016 at Showline Studios in Toronto. It is produced by Thunderbird Films in conjunction with Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company, with Lee and Yoon reprising their roles from the play. Scripts were created by Choi and Kevin White, who previously wrote for ''Corner Gas''. The second season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fu Tien-Yu
Fu or FU may refer to: In arts and entertainment *Fool Us, Penn & Teller's magic-competition television show *Fǔ, a type of ancient Chinese vessel *Fu (poetry) (赋), a Chinese genre of rhymed prose *'' FU: Friendship Unlimited'', a 2017 Marathi film *Fu Manchu, a fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer *Shaq Fu, video game *Francis Urquhart, the main character in the novel ''House of Cards'' by Michael Dobbs, and in the UK television series In music *The F.U.'s, an American band *''F.U. Don't Take It Personal'', an album by American hip hop group Fu-Schnickens *''F.U.E.P.'', an EP by Lily Allen * "FU" (song), a song by Miley Cyrus from her album ''Bangerz'' *''F.U. EP'', a 2002 EP by Gob *"F.U.", a song by Little Mix from their 2016 album '' Glory Days'' *"F-U", a song by Yo Gotti from his 2013 album ''I Am'' *"F.U.", a song by Avril Lavigne from her seventh studio album ''Love Sux'' In language *Fu (character) (福), meaning "bud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhydian Vaughan
Rhydian Vaughan (born 10 March 1988), also known by his stage name Feng Xiaoyue, is a Taiwanese-British actor, best known for his performances in the films '' Monga'', ''Girlfriend, Boyfriend'' and '' Winds of September''. Early life Vaughan is of Eurasian descent; his Taiwanese mother is a performance artist, while his British father is a violinist. Vaughan graduated from East 15 Acting School East 15 Acting School (East 15) is a British drama school in Loughton, Essex.Its degrees are awarded by the University of Essex, with which it merged on 1 September 2000. As of 2020, Essex University, where East 15 is located, has been ranked No. ..., a British performing arts school, in 2011. Filmography Films Television Music videos Discography Singles Awards and nominations References External links * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan, Rhydian Taiwanese male film actors Taiwanese male television actors 21st-century Taiwanese male actors British male film actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gingger Shankar
Gingger Shankar is an American singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. She has scored several films, including '' Circumstance''. Early life Shankar was born in Los Angeles, California and raised there and in India. She is the eldest daughter of violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam. Her mother, Viji Subramaniam, was a classical singer just like her grandmother Lakshmi Shankar, sister-in-law of noted sitarist Ravi Shankar. As a child, she learned to sing, dance, and play violin and piano and attended the Kalakshetra creative arts school in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Later, she studied opera vocals with professional opera singer Tantoo Cardinal in Sherman Oaks, California. She also modeled and acted in stage productions. She began performing professionally at age 14. Instruments Shankar plays the violin, cello and piano. She is the only woman in the world to play the double violin. This ten-string, stereophonic instrument covers the entire orchestral range, including double bass, cello, v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Tsang
Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung (; born 8 November 1979) is a Hong Kong film director and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan Ho-Sun after graduating from University of Toronto Scarborough in 2001. He made his acting debut in '' Men Suddenly in Black'' (2003) and directorial debut with ''Lover's Discourse'' (2010), sharing the directing credit with Jimmy Wan Chi-man. The duo was nominated for a Golden Horse Award for Best New Director in 2010. His solo directorial debut ''Soul Mate'' (2016) was critically praised, receiving a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film nomination at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards. His next film '' Better Days'' (2019) was the Hong Kong submission for the Academy Awards and received a Best International Feature Film nomination, becoming the first Hong Kong submission directed by a Hong Kong native to do so. Early life Derek Tsang was born to actor Eric Tsang and his second wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jus Reign
Jasmeet Singh Raina (born November 4, 1989), professionally known as Jus Reign, is a Canadian comedian and music artist of Indian descent. He is most prominently known as a YouTube personality, and one of Much Digital Studios' original creators. Early life Jasmeet Singh Raina was raised in Guelph, Ontario, Canada into an immigrant Indian Kashmiri Sikh family. When he was 5 years old, his father started paying a maestro to teach Jasmeet and his younger brother, Anmol, in Indian classical music. Jasmeet played the Tabla. He started to dislike playing it and as he has stated in his "Draw My Life" on YouTube, he argued with his teacher to the point where he got a tabla thrown at his face. He studied at the University of Guelph, where he originally studied to become a doctor to appease his parents' wishes. Eventually, the sketches Raina was creating on the side went viral and his parents accepted that their son had found success and have since been supportive of his YouTube career. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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